indigo rose...

indigo rose..., a photo by credd on Flickr.

each year when i'm deciding what i'll plant...
i'm looking for the unusual.
this year...
i got a lot of that!!!

this is my indigo rose tomato.
it's a purple variety out of oregon state...
that is high in antioxidants.

a couple of weeks ago...
i went out to the garden...
and saw that some of my tomatoes were looking black on one side of them.

i thought i'd been gone so long that that sun had started to bruise them...
and was ecstatic to learn this was not the case...
and that these were one of the indigo varieties i planted.

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wow...
look at all that dust on the plant!!!
i didn't see it until i'd imported the photos into the computer.
i'll hose them all off tomorrow.

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if you want to read more about this variety of tomato...
you can do that here on oregon state's website.

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